Hitesh Kadam

Staff Software Engineer, Infosys - Java · learning to rank · Scala

Infosys

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

IIT Bombay

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

Currently at Infosys, where I work on search and ranking. Shipped 19 launches on the search team without a rollback.

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Advice on search and ranking
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SEO and link-building offers
Offshore staffing offers

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Skills

ScalaJavalearning to rankperformance engineering

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closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: search and ranking and performance engineering

Topics: search and ranking, performance engineering, Java
Format: Calls
Terms: Paid
Capacity: A few async reviews a month
Best for: Teams scaling past 50 people

12 years of search and ranking. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Mumbai, India · remote OKlearning to rankscalaperformance engineering

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Experience

Staff Software Engineer
Dec 2024 - Present
Infosys · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 3.
- Shipped 27 launches on the search team without a rollback.
Engineering Manager
Apr 2022 - Sep 2024
Zomato · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Brought on-call pages for search down from 28 a week to 1.
Software Engineer
Jun 2018 - Apr 2022
Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 31 million requests a day.
- Cut p99 latency on the search services from 381ms to 61ms.
Software Engineer
Apr 2015 - Jun 2018
Kotak Mahindra Bank · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Moved 95% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Brought on-call pages for search down from 28 a week to 2.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from search

2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling search and ranking.

Search and ranking benchmark

2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Java and learning to rank on real workloads.

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Education

IIT Bombay
B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
2009 - 2013

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